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Biographers note that Sayers ' later relationship with Bill White and her marriage to the fellow writer Oswald Atherton " Mac " Fleming provide grist for Vane's struggle to balance love ( and perhaps marriage to Wimsey ) and her work.

After Sayers ' affairs with Cournos and White were revealed, the comparisons between Sayers and Vane became more emphatic.

( Neither of these affairs was publicly known during Sayers ' lifetime.